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Man Planned to Kill Former Employer After Watching ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Notwithstanding a steady stream of positive press calling ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ the most pro-law enforcement, conservative film made this year (and in some cases, ever made), a disturbing trend looks like it may be developing surrounding the film’s viewers. Along with the by-this-point infamous Aurora, Colorado shooter James Holmes, now another story has emerged from Bangor, Maine, showing that yet another mentally unstable man entered a theater showing the popular film while he carried a concealed weapon.

Mercifully, no shooting occurred in this case. Indeed, the man was apprehended on his way to killing his true intended target, his former employer, and there is no evidence that the man involved wanted to shoot anyone in the theater, notwithstanding the gun he brought in with him. Nevertheless, the story is disturbing. From the Bangor Daily News:

Timothy Courtois, 49, was arrested in York about 10 a.m. Sunday after state police Trooper Phillip Alexander clocked Courtois’ Ford Mustang traveling at 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike. Other motorists had called police to report the vehicle was speeding southbound on the turnpike with its hazard lights flashing.

Timothy Courtois of Bangor, Maine, Planned to Shoot His Employer After Viewing The Dark Knight Rises

Timothy Courtois

Inside the car, police found an AK-47 assault rifle, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition, McCausland said Monday afternoon.

Timothy Courtois of Bangor, Maine, Planned to Shoot His Employer After Viewing The Dark Knight Rises

Courtois' stash of weapons

Also in Courtois’ car, police found newspaper clippings about the mass shooting Friday during a showing of the same Batman movie at a Colorado movie theater, according to McCausland.

Courtois told police he had attended the Batman movie at the Cinemagic Theater in Saco on Saturday night with a loaded gun in his backpack and that he was on his way Sunday to Derry, N.H., where he planned to shoot a former employer, McCausland said.

“He didn’t speak to any intent to harm people [at the theater], but I’m sure a lot of this is going to continue to come out” as agencies including the state police, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives continue their investigations, Maine State Police Lt. Kevin Donovan said Monday.

“We don’t know what his true intentions were” when he brought the gun to the theater, and investigators are trying to determine his reasons for doing so and for having a large collection of firearms, McCausland said.

Courtois is now behind bars on $50,000 cash bail, and even in the event that he makes bail, police have banned him from possessing alcohol, drugs, or dangerous weapons while the investigation and trial are under way. Still, even with this would-be murderer neutralized, the story raises multiple awkward questions, especially considering the film’s message runs completely counter to this kind of behavior. Perhaps Mr. Courtois walked out after one of Bane’s speeches?

Hopefully, this and other questions will be answered with more information from the media before this story vanishes off the map.

H/T Gawker

Comments (49)

  • The0bserver
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:01am

    He’s driving 112 mph with his hazard lights on, and he’s on his way to shoot his former boss? Was he trying to sneak up on him? Something doesn’t add up. Was he really on his way to shoot his boss, or was he just being a smart mouth when asked why he had a weapon in his car? Or is the guy just a complete goofball?

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  • alpha2omega47
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:22am

    Maybe there is some Helter Skelter subliminal stuff in “The Dark Knight Rises” movie? Personally I think; and pay attention Atheists, that Obama is the Antichrist and what we are seeing are “end times” behavior phenomenon; where weird stuff happens at the onset of a cataclysmic event of some kind; like chickens act peculiar before a strong thunder storm. Obama could very well be the Antichrist; if not ~ why would people love and support him and believe his lies as they do? The Antichrist is supposed to have the solution to all problems and people are supposed to believe even his worst of lies ~ guess who fits the profile? Barry Barack Hussein the Interceptor ~ Soretoro. The guy that just appeared out of nowhere.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 9:20am

      Yo Alpha:

      Obama is a preview of the anti-christ … this guy is not “good” enough. Many were on to him from the get-go. The real ac will actually have solutions to WORLD problems. obama is however influenced by a powerful dark spirit.

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  • Blazebanned
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:50am

    Another “gun” story NOT written by or investigated by the Blaze,Too many unanswered questions, but one things for sure, there will be emphasis on two things, guns and the batman movie. Glenn you stated some time back you were going to “clean” up the Blaze,how about starting by getting people in here that arent huffpo rejects. and know how to do research and write their own stories….

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  • redbird one
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:30am

    A disgruntled worker that can afford a Mustang?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:51am

      Police have banned him from possessing alcohol , drugs or firearms during the investigation…….ummm ok, I’m sure the former employer feels much safer now……

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:01am

      He bought the guns from Eric Holder……

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    • HKS
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:28am

      I think it’s movies that cause these killing sprees . Hollywood is responsible again. They have a clever way of passing the blame to guns and protecting their “instructional video products”. It’s all a liberal smokescreen.

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  • LovinUSA
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:54am

    Gun control and the 2nd amendment – that’s all this is…………

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  • Godzgrl247
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:28am

    @ The Blaze = YOU ARE THE MEDIA. If you don’t want a story dropped before you get the answers you want, do some investigative journalism and keep the story alive. Duh! As for this story, can you really have a case if someone says they “intended” to kill someone? I think this whole story is a little fishy, or hoaky, or contrived; whatever.

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  • AlcoholicMB
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 4:50am

    I love how the writer of this article and the AP hammer the fact that he was carrying a concealed weapon, like that alone is a crime punishable by death.

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  • maverick4harlot
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 2:20am

    All of this is a set up. It is a POLITICAL set up.
    OBAMA kiss my ass, as long as you continue to kiss my ass you continue to………
    kiss my ass…………

    How about reading the Constitution and living by it. Anyone that doesnt is a traitor. Uh Oh, Time is up. Get on your knees. Time is up. How exactly am I eluding you. Get on your knees.. NOW.

    Time is what i say it is.

    learn.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:28am

    http://www.newhampshire.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120724/NEWS03/707239914&source=RSS&template=printart

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:20am

    One thing I find really strange about this story after reading it on msnbc is that he hasn’t been identified as a tea party member yet. I do know he wanted to be caught though, driving 112 miles an hour with flashing hazard lights, admitting he took his gun in the movie theater and then saying he was going to kill his former employer.When he walks free I bet he won’t have to worry about another bad employer. Another unemployed person to add to the 8.2%. If this was framed for the gun control agenda it was a waste of time bc it just did more damage to the unemployment statistics. BTW, he looks like a liberal to me bc he throws that head back with his nose in the air like the campaigner-in-chief.

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:30am

      I wonder myself.. very strange.
      This guy wanted to get caught …speeding over a 100mph
      With flashers and a orgy of evidence in the car
      With a nice stash at home ..
      Then telling the police his intentions on killing his boss…
      when could have use picked any excuse that would have been better..
      Talk about your Manchurian Candidate..!

      Although my other thought is…Being no one got killed …

      Because he was running around with a sign saying HERE I AM..!!

      my first question would be..
      How much money did someone pay him to pull this stunt …?
      And the second question is ….who was it..?

      I want to see his bank account records and look for any large amount of
      money deposited in the Cayman Islands.. in his name.

      Momentum is the key…
      They will make the pieces fit later to meet their agenda…

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  • inblack
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:17am

    @Blaze

    What is the point of this story?

    If you are trying to prove that “coincidence = causality” that one has been tried.

    With over one million people having seen this movie we can try some other headlines.

    Woman gives birth after watching “The Dark Knight Rises”.
    Teen wrecks car after watching “The Dark Knight Rises”.
    Man quits job after watching “The Dark Knight Rises”.
    Woman has abortion after watching “The Dark Knight Rises”.
    Blaze reader posts comment after watching “The Dark Knight Rises”.

    Pretty pathetic.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:47am

      I guess I should watch “The Dark Knight Rises”.

      I’m starting to feel left out.

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  • Teufel Hunden
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:06am

    The police would crap themselves if they seen my stash of weapons. By the weapons on the table, he appears to have good taste.

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  • maverick4harlot
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:41am

    @ TomSawyer

    Just you demeanor tells me that you are not honest. You have tried to be smart, but have realized you are stupid. Your not stupid, you just want to gain the support of those that would support the indigent. Not one stupid person ever calls themselves stupid. NOT EVER. oH AND JUST SO THAT YOU KNOW,,,,, i DONT CALL THEM STUPID EITHER. There are those that are less fotunate, and sometimes less intelligent, BUT NEVER STUPID.

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  • WiscPatriotUSA
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:38am

    The story says he had an AK47 and four handguns with him. In the photo above, I count 5-rifles and 7-handguns! I would say that is pretty sloppy reporting or a staged photo. Either way, I would like to know if this guy also had a clean records check.
    Like I said before, in a Country of 300 million people, you’re never going to be able to stop all the nuts out there.
    The Media and Libs are crying, “It’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns!!!” No, it’s the person, it’s the person, it’s the person! Timothy McVey used fertilizer. Should we ban that, too? Maybe we should ban kitchen knife sets from department stores…how about rope…and let’s ban politicians while we are at it…specifically U.S. Attorney Generals who sell guns to drug cartels. A gun, like a hammer or screwdriver is just a tool. Used improperly with malicious intent, yes, it can cause injury and death. So can a hammer or screwdriver or automobile.
    Let’s start prosecuting criminals and speeding up the death sentence for those that take a life–if there is no doubt that James Holmes killed those people in Aurora, then convict him, sentence him and hang him by the end of August. Start putting the fear into those who would commit such acts. And for crying out loud, now that Holmes has been charged, shave his stupid head, bald and stop letting him portray his idiotic fantasy.

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  • maverick4harlot
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:11am

    There are much bigger things going on though. Glass Stegall was killed by Clinton to spur the economy, It did a good job. It allowed people to make unreasonable bets with money they didnt have and maybe win on those bets and as a result grow the economy. However glass stegall was put in place to protect the American people against gamblers that were stupid, such that created the great depression. Now Bush 2 was supposed to reinstate the glass stegall act but then came 9-11 and he didnt. The gamblers became more willing to take chances and then they lost. HOWEVER, because of the fact that they had lobbiests and they were TO BIG TO FAIL, we the American public had to pick upon the tab for them loosing on a loosing bet. Has it changed? NO. We are still paying. Yes if these companies that bet on the wrong horse fail then the people loose their jobs and all hell breaks loose. Tell you what. I have bet the horses before. When I lost I lost. I stopped betting, I didnt like loosing. Glass Stegall made the betters pay for their bets. With the suspension by Clinton and the NON INTRODUCTION BY BUSH. WE THE PEOPLE PAID THE PRICE.

    UH OH,,,,, WE ARE NOT DONE. LET US SAY YOU HAVE BEEN A MILLIONAIRE. but now you have lost. Is their not a vulture waiting in the wings to take over your position in life? A positinion that for them is powerfull when coupled with that which is taken from others that have failed?

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  • valleyfever
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:07am

    Where is the rest of the story?

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  • Danneskjold56
    Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:05am

    Where are these nut jobs coming from. I am totally frustrated having pre-ordered tickets before all this madness and decided to get a refund of my tickets instead. At this rate i will probably have to wait to see it on dvd when all i really wanted to see it in was Imax (the way it was meant to be seen). Seriously why do all these nut jobs want to drag this movie down.

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  • Sans P.
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:53pm

    The facts stated in the story don’t quite make sense. Of course the focus is on his arsenal (Dick Cheney, Ted Nugent, and Rick Perry have more guns than that guy does) and not on his mental state…

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:28pm

    The only way we will get more information on this from the media (I use the term media in a very lose term here) is if they can fit it into their leftist anti-gun agenda.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:15pm

    This is likely set up for the leftists who will bail him, sail him and get him out and off for a price. This is to help get rid of guns so Americans will be sitting ducks for the cowards who want Americans defenseless when and if they do get their nerve to try a take over. Could be. I do not trust them at all, for they have done nothing but harp on gun control ever chance they had had to get notice. They will not waste a good tragedy or one in the works. These people are working towards a complete take over of this government and they know just like we do that criminals will Always be able to get guns as they will when they decide to act. This is extreme, but they are being judged by the hand they have dealt so far against the American Republic. They have nothing to contribute to this country and are indeed trying to destroy the very foundation thereof.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:10pm

    I did a google search on this guy……he also wanted to give his former employer a wedgie after watching “Revenge of the Nerds”. I won’t tell you what he wanted to do to his boss after watching “Deep Throat”.

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    • TexasKnight
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:34pm

      Best blaze comment of the week.
      They should actually give a reward, you would win hands down this week.
      LMAO

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:11am

      DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA, Dang, you’ve gotten my sides hurting again from the laughter. You are really pointing at what I believe. There are just some real nuts out there and in this litigious society of today, people are really afraid to say anything about them. This constant turning a blind eye will just lead to more of serious incidents. We were lucky that this guy was caught before he could complete his mission.

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:06am

      @Tanagra

      after watching deep throat
      he wanted to give him a BARNEY

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 2:18am

      Perhaps if hollow – wood were to bring back ‘roadrunner’ — the rest of the ‘wolves’ will jump off a cliff and we will be home ‘free…’ — just spit-ballin‘ but seems like it’d ‘work’ given: Robert’s penalty=tax re:write; DOJ (top law ‘enforcement’ officer – refusal for plausible-deniability ’cause’); “You didn’t build that!”= “I didn’t say that,” etc…. They want for us to ‘believe’ common sense is an ‘oxymoron…’ – sadly — the people also believe THAT. This morning, I woke and it was dark (it was actually 12:31am) — When I went to bed this evening at 8:00 pm it was light … CONTEXT, people… geeeze…. A lamb‘s tail is NOT a fricken ’leg’…(Lincoln quote — ‘supposedly’)

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  • mikefromaltoona
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:08pm

    Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the definitive example of irony!

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  • possom
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:02pm

    Alot of gun’s to kill one person.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:47am

      That’s a key indication of a deranged person….

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:29am

      Or a Fine Middleaged Democrat, virtually posting a sign: “ITSA GUNZ!”
      IOW, a setup. Expect to see more of it.

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  • maverick4harlot
    Posted on July 23, 2012 at 10:46pm

    While I am a person that does not condone the government as it is today I am also not an idiot as this person or the person in Colorado. There are WAY WAY WAY to many idiots in this world. Idiots that would choose to hurt others that do not deserve it. Everyday I run into, speak with, and am subjected to people that are SO F’N STUPID that it boggles my mind how they even survive? Now I have no problem with those that need help in this world. Not everyone is born with high intelligence and we should help those that need help, but there are MANY MANY people in this world that are dangerously angry and idiotic. Whats worse many of them are promoted by television shows like Jorry Spronger and Murphy Polovich. People LOVE to cheer for the idiots, they LOVE to watch them. How did we as a human race become so stupid? This story just highlights one more case in favor of sterilization.

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    • teebubba
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:05pm

      LOL…If we wanted to solve a lot of the world’s problems find some way to sterilize anyone who bows towards Mecca five times a day..

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:18pm

      Any people want to know why people were so much smarter 1,000 years ago? Even people that werent so smart were smarter than us. Why? Well people didnt sit around listening to radio or watching TV. What did they do in place of TV and radio? They THOUGHT. THEY INVENTED. Today all people want to do is vegitate in front of the tube. Our ancestors were FORCED to think and invent if they wanted to live. We enjoy the perks of their labor and as such we choose to vegitate, WHICH IN TURN MAKES US STUPID. Somebody prove me wrong. Even in the 1930′s people were smarter and knew more than we know as a general population today. The truth is the truth.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:29pm

      teebubba

      I like the laugh. I do not however like the inference that anyone that is of the muslim religion should be sterilized. There was a time, early in the christian religion where it was acceptable to stone your wife if you THOUGH maybe she might be cheating on you. I do NOT like the muslim religion as I percieve the hard core believers, such that honor killings or anything of the kind are acceptable. Anyone of ANY religion that truly believes that all others of other religions should be killed en mass, I AM STRONGLY AGAINST, but the statement, or ANY statement that Mecca or those that believe in it should be sterilized only purports your own lack of intelligence and the fact that you yourself should possibly be sterilized for you own obvious lack of intelligence.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 23, 2012 at 11:50pm

      Now teebubba you want to know where I draw the line? I wear a crucifix. A WHITE GOLD crucifix. White for the same reason that your wife wanted to wear white on the alter. I will not wear yellow. I am EXTREEMLY VEHEMENT, (zealous; ardent; impassioned) ABOUT MY BELIEF IN jESUS. I wait for the day when I am told by a zealous muslim that my crucifix is insluting and I must hide it. This has ALREADY BEEN DONE IN DEARBORN MICHIGAN. For a short period of time it was illegal to speak about christianity in Dearborn Michigan. The courts forced them to change the laws but it IS on it’s way.

      In short a good person is a good person I dont give a **** who they pray to. A bad person is a bad person and I dont give a **** who they prey to either. I bet you just totally chose to forget what I just stated. IPERSONALLY KNOW GOOD WHITE PEOPLE, I PERSONALLY KNOW GOOD BLACK PEOPLE, I PERSONALLY KNOW GOOD MUSLIMS, I PERSONALLY KNOW GOOD CHRISTIANS, I PERSONALLY KNOW GOOD JEWISH PEOPLE, I PERSONALLY KNOW GOOD HINDU PEOPLE. It’s NOT the religion. It’s not the personal beliefs. IT IS THE PERSON. Is the person willing to HURT others for their religion? If they are then they are bad.

      I will tell you this. You have 12 arms, 6 legs, 12 eyes, your skin is black with orange polkadots, but you respect me? Guess what I respect you. Those that dont respect you because of the way you look……. I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEM. The key is 2 respect YOURSELF. IF U TRULY BELIEVE OTHERWISE you are not wi

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    • TomSawyer
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:16am

      I have tried to be smart, but it the final analysis, I am stupid. Please don’t shoot me.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:33am

      I am VERY scared for the youngest smart people amongst us. I tell all of them that if hell breaks out go where nobody wants to go. Learn to shoot rabbits and squirrels and whatever moves. Go where NOBODY is willing to go and MAYBE you will survive.

      Me however, I will be on the front line defending them. WILL YOU?
      Death doesnt scare me, me government DOES.

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    • maverick4harlot
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:59am

      Socialism is a cancer. The rich choose to set their mobsters amongst our represntatives and call them lobbiests. Beck has it right. Top down, rich and their Lobbiests, bottom up, socialists and their leaders that believe we deserve everything. Beck has it correct. But then he is a willing part of it that only gets paid to encite all of us at a time when we are the weakest and least likely to be at our top strength. Me? I am the ass. I am the one they knew would appear and they fear the most. I am independant. I stand for what I believe. I stand for I. PERIOD. If you follow you do so at your own risk. I am right, Of course to the Federal Government, in their broadcast I will be the crazy, nuts, mentally unstable one. Good for them. BAD FOR YOU..

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on July 24, 2012 at 2:38am

      Some aren’t QUITE ready for Spronger, but Polovich‘s out lQQkin’ for those who are‘s ’might just BE ‘nex babyMomma..’ — Morbid curiosity… Say — Ripley‘s Believe It or Not MIGHT be ’true…’ Might rain Hoes too — but I doubt it :-)

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